Russian Meteor Shower

[jc_sv8]

http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/meteor-shower-explodes-in-central-russia-and-urals-injuring-people/story-e6frfq80-1226578976770

Did anyone see Armageddon?
This looks just like the start of the movie...

[Xenon]

Can't be armageddon, it didnt hit America.

[Ausmartin1]

Can't be armageddon, it didnt hit America.

Say did you see all the videos caught on in car cameras, Russians must have their own version of Black Vue units as everyone sees to have.

Impressive when you think these are just small space boulders ! It really lit the sky up and caused damage..

[Woodchukka]

That one is a baby. Glad this one missed.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/150ft-asteroid-set-near-miss-1709907

[Xenon]

Say did you see all the videos caught on in car cameras, Russians must have their own version of Black Vue units as everyone sees to have.

Impressive when you think these are just small space boulders ! It really lit the sky up and caused damage..

Everyone has in-car cameras due to rampant false personal-injury claims. People will walk in front of a car, fall down screaming and claim you hit them.

http://www.animalnewyork.com/2012/russian-dashcam/

http://dailyoftheday.com/everyone-in-russia-has-a-dash-cam/

http://www.roadhawk.co.uk/blog/dash-cam-russia/

http://www.mandatory.com/2012/10/12/a-dash-cam-compilation-of-russian-insurance-scam-attempts/

That last link shows just how bad it is.

[jc_sv8]

That one is a baby. Glad this one missed.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/150ft-asteroid-set-near-miss-1709907

It hasn't missed yet, it goes through about 1:30am tomorrow morning.
Will be interesting to see if it caused any issues with GPS/comms as it passes inside the geo-synchronous orbit of plenty of satellites.

May be the meteor shower was some of the bits in a gravitational orbit of this rock, dunno.
I read that they estimate that it's worth about $185 billion dollars if they could mine it.
There is a company that is looking at how they can harness them as they fly by (at 28000kph!), sounds like the early days of towing icebergs to solve the water shortages...

Where is Bruce Willis when you need him!

[VTClubSprtR8]

May be the meteor shower was some of the bits in a gravitational orbit of this rock, dunno.

Yep, I would say it is debris from 2012 DA14 when something has collided with it on its travels no doubt.

[VNV8]

Bloody hell, less than 100km from a nuclear weapon storage/disposal facility! Could have been worse!

[Ausmartin1]

Everyone has in-car cameras due to rampant false personal-injury claims. People will walk in front of a car, fall down screaming and claim you hit them.

http://www.animalnewyork.com/2012/russian-dashcam/

http://dailyoftheday.com/everyone-in-russia-has-a-dash-cam/

http://www.roadhawk.co.uk/blog/dash-cam-russia/

http://www.mandatory.com/2012/10/12/a-dash-cam-compilation-of-russian-insurance-scam-attempts/

That last link shows just how bad it is.

Looks like you really should never hire a car or drive in Russia, the lunatic driving lubricated with vodka I presume, but the scams - that's something.